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Species Campyloneura virgula

Plant Bug? on Redwood Post - Campyloneura virgula

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Hemiptera (True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies)

Suborder Heteroptera (True Bugs)

Infraorder Cimicomorpha

Superfamily Miroidea

Family Miridae (Plant Bugs)

Subfamily Bryocorinae

Tribe Dicyphini

Genus Campyloneura

Species virgula (Campyloneura virgula)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Author: Herrich-Schäffer 1836 (Originally as Capsus)

Range

adventive in NA (BC-CA)(1), native to w. Palaearctic

Habitat

Numerous shrubs and trees including alder (Alnus), poplar (Populus, nettles (Urtica), Scotch broom (Cytisus scoparius), plum (Prunus)(1)

Season

May-Aug (BG data)

Food

Apparently predacious on small arthropods(1)

Remarks

occasionally bite humans(1)

earliest NA record: CA 1944(2)

Internet References

Live images of adults and nymphs (British Bugs)

Koleopterologie.de

Works Cited

1.	A Synthesis of the Holarctic Miridae (Heteroptera): Distribution, Biology, and Origin, with Emphasis on North America A. G., Jr. Wheeler & Thomas J. Henry. 1992. Entomological Society of America.

2.	Alien true bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) in Canada: composition and adaptations Scudder G.G.E., Foottit R.G. 2006. Can. Entomol. 138: 24-51.

Contributed by John R. Maxwell on 21 October, 2008 - 11:27am
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Mike Quinn, v belov, onegunah
Last updated 19 November, 2020 - 11:48am

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